he campaigned on a big tax cut, on the ryan plan, on interest rates are too low and ben bernanke is too loose, human life amendment for abortion. this was the platform given to him. now, people who follow politics extremely closely, who knew how they would vote a year ago, they may know that mitt romney is a complicated person with a lot of you innance nuances, but people who tuned in late, they got that mitt romney was a generic republican, and that would force the country in default in 2011. they heard about the ryan plan, the human life amendment and they voted no. they reflected what they heard from romney's mouth, not what was in his heart. >> crystal ball, from where you sit, can the republican party possibly make the moves that david seems to be suggesting that they have to make on policy? in order to appeal to a larger constituency? >> they certainly can. i think it's going to be tough, though, because they sold the base on this idea you have to be ideologically pure, and you have to sort of change who the base is if you're going to get more electable candidates on the primary.